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Tell Congress: Transporting goods shouldn’t pollute the air

08/13/26

With access to cleaner cars already threatened, we can't afford for the vehicles transporting the food and goods we buy to pollute more as well. But the Trump administration wants to gut federal protections, like…

The Nature Conservancy

Protect Communities from Wildfire

08/06/26

Wildfires continue to grow more destructive — threatening forests, wildlife, communities and the air we breathe. Overgrown vegetation, drought and a changing climate are causing fires to increase in frequency and severity.

Environment America

Tell the Forest Service: Stop spraying glyphosate in national forests

08/06/26

America’s national forests are among our greatest natural treasures. Yet your agency has been spraying glyphosate across these public lands.

Earthjustice

Defend the Endangered Species Act

08/06/26

In the coming decades, a million of the Earth’s species face the possibility of extinction due to climate change, pollution, and habitat loss. Even species that are not yet on the brink will face huge…

nylcv

Support Electric School Buses

08/06/26

Electric school buses mean cleaner air for students, drivers, and neighborhoods – especially in communities that have been disproportionately impacted by dangerous diesel pollution.

Moms Clean Air Force

Tell EPA: Protect Children From Toxic Truck Exhaust

08/06/26

In another salvo in its reckless war on clean air, EPA has released a proposal to weaken tailpipe pollution protections for new heavy-duty diesel vehicles, like school buses and many delivery trucks. This means more toxic exhaust…

DeSmog

Inside the Grassroots Revolt Against Carbon Capture Pipelines

By Taylor Noakes 08/05/26

Dr. Amil Shapka was having a quiet day in the rural Alberta community of St. Paul when a worried neighbour showed up at his doorstep. The man, a senior citizen, had been approached by agents…

Environment America

Tell the Bureau of Land Management: Maintain protections for Chaco Canyon

07/30/26

Chaco Canyon is an irreplaceable cultural landscape, home to thousands of archaeological sites, important wildlife habitat and internationally recognized dark skies. Opening the surrounding public lands to new oil and gas leasing and mining could…

Climate Reality Project

Tell Congress: Support the Energy Bills Relief Act

07/30/26

It’s a great blueprint for the kind of legislation we need – a comprehensive plan for building out clean energy and making life more affordable for American families.

Center For Biological Diversity

Keep Ocean Mining Out of Virginia

07/30/26

The Trump administration recently announced plans to open federal waters off Virginia to industrial seabed mining — which would be the first time this disruptive mining for minerals has ever been allowed in public waters…

Heatmap

Microsoft Sustainability Chief Hounded by Protestors at Seattle Climate Week

By Katie Brigham 07/17/26

Protestors interrupted one of the final sessions of PNW Climate Week — a conference that brings together climate leaders across Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia — objecting to Microsoft’s rising carbon emissions from data centers…

Action Network

Disaster Relief Is A Lifeline

07/06/26

When disaster strikes, Americans rely on FEMA to help communities prepare and recover.But right now, Trump is weakening FEMA at the exact moment we need it most. Staffing shortages, delayed aid, and proposed cuts to…

Independent

Climate Activists

09/25/23

The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent...

The New York Times

Climate Protesters March in New York City

09/25/23

Thousands of demonstrators called on President Biden and other world leaders to stop new oil and gas drilling...

fightfossilfuels.net

Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels

09/25/23

On September 15 to 17, millions of people around the world will take to the streets to demand a rapid, just, and equitable end to fossil fuels. This wave of global mobilisations will include the…

Carnegie

Climate Protest Tracker

09/25/23

In a complex, changing, and increasingly contested world, the Carnegie Endowment generates strategic ideas and independent analysis, supports diplomacy, and trains the next generation of international scholar-practitioners to help countries and institutions take on the…

fridaysforfuture.org

Fridays for Future

04/30/20

#FridaysForFuture is a youth-led and -organised movement that began in August 2018, after 15-year-old Greta Thunberg and other young activists sat in front of the Swedish parliament every schoolday for three weeks, to protest against…

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350.org

We fight climate change, for people and the planet.

07/02/26

From exposing Big Oil to building people power worldwide, we’re fighting back together.

Climate Action Now

Tell Congress to pass the FREEDOM and GEO POWER Acts to unleash U.S. geothermal!

05/25/26

U.S. enhanced geothermal superstar startup Fervo just held a very successful initial public offering (IPO), raising $1.9 billion and valuing the company at $7.7 billion (now risen to over $10 billion). It’s the largest-ever clean…

Environmentalvoter Project

Ready to make a high-impact difference with us?

05/08/26

Join the Environmental Voter Project to turn out low propensity environmental voters in Nebraska ahead of their May 12th statewide primary election.

Data Center Watch

$64 billion of data center projects have been blocked or delayed amid local opposition

04/24/26

$64 billion in U.S. data center projects have been blocked or delayed by a growing wave of local, bipartisan opposition. What was once quiet infrastructure is now a national flashpoint — and communities are pushing…

Capital & Main

The Common Ground of the Climate and ‘ICE Out’ Movements

By Audrey Carleton 04/03/26

On a frigid Tuesday evening in lower Manhattan, a group of black t-shirt clad New Yorkers sat, shoulder-to-shoulder on the lobby floor of a Hilton, chanting in unison. Crowds swarmed the windows in solidarity as…

The New York Times

How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change

By David Gelles 01/17/26

In January 2020, Larry Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, stunned the business world by declaring that he intended to use the trillions of dollars managed by his…

The Guardian

More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters

By Oliver Milman 12/08/25

A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been…

E&E News

One green group’s legal mess has other nonprofits worried

By Robin Bravender 11/26/25

One of the world’s best-known green groups is duking it out against a Texas energy company in a multi-pronged legal drama that has legal nerds, environmentalists and other companies watching closely.

BBC

Brazil creates new Indigenous territories during protest-hit COP30

By Mallory Moench and Georgina Rannard 11/18/25

COP30 host Brazil has created 10 new Indigenous territories, with the climate summit hit by protests in recent days.

Bloomberg

Big Protests Are Back at COP After a Years-Long Absence

By Daniel Carvalho and Others 11/15/25

Beginning at dawn on Friday, dozens of people from Brazil’s Indigenous Munduruku tribe assembled at the venue of the United Nations’ COP30 climate summit in the city of Belém and blocked the entrance. They demanded…

AlJazeera

Indigenous activists storm COP30 climate summit in Brazil, demanding action

By Lyndal Rowlands 11/12/25

Hundreds of people have joined an Indigenous-led protest on the second day of the UN climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belem, highlighting tensions with the Brazilian government’s claim that the meeting is open…

Politico

Protesters and UN security clash at climate summit in Brazil

By Zia Weise 11/11/25

Activist groups and United Nations security clashed in chaotic scenes late Tuesday after protesters appeared to force their way into the COP30 climate conference venue, in the most serious act of unrest seen in years…

The East Hampton Star

Hundreds Joined South Fork Protests

By Denis Hartnett and Christopher Walsh 04/07/25

The crowds began to gather in front of Town Hall in East Hampton and at Steinbeck Park in Sag Harbor around 11:45 on Saturday morning as part of the Hands Off! rallies held concurrently across…

Inside Climate News

Taking It to the Streets: Scientists Mobilize to Fight Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Anti-Science Agenda

03/07/25

They came to testify to the life-saving benefits of medical research. They came to explain how scientific discoveries avert disasters and keep skyscrapers standing during earthquakes. They came to rail against the imminent human, social…

Phys.Org

Climate activism is no longer a young person’s game

By Olivia Rudgard 11/04/24

When Cathy Fulkerson walked into her bank in Reno, Nevada, she was ready to cancel her credit card. Carrying a letter stating her concerns, Fulkerson explained to the manager why she wanted to cut ties:…

Los Angeles Times

Column: Are climate protesters changing the world? Or wasting their time?

By Sammy Roth 09/26/24

Sometimes it’s clear when you’re watching history: the March on Washington. The Apollo 11 moon landing. Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the first woman of color to accept a major party presidential nomination. Other times,…

WBZ

Climate Activists Chain Themselves to Statehouse

09/24/24

Three climate activists with Extinction Rebellion Boston chained themselves to the front gates of the Massachusetts State House Monday afternoon, blocking the main entrance. The protest was part of the group’s “Week of Rebellion” to…

E&E NEWS

Climate activists arrested outside Vance’s Senate office

By Robin Bravender 07/29/24

Activists with the group Sunrise Movement protested outside Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance’s Senate office on Monday as they assailed the GOP vice presidential candidate’s climate record. Dozens of young people occupied the hallway outside…

Inside Climate News

Climate Protesters Take to the Field at the Congressional Baseball Game

By Keerti Gopal 06/13/24

Eight climate activists arrested after storming the field at the annual Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park and held overnight were released from jail Thursday afternoon and face federal charges.

Stop the Money Pipeline

04/25/24

100s of climate activists have shut down Citibank’s Global HQ, demanding that the bank stops financing coal, oil, and gas. There can be no business-as-usual on a dead planet! 🔥

The New Yorker

Going Ons

By Alex Barasch 03/22/24

When climate protesters rose from the audience to disrupt “An Enemy of the People”—a revival of the Ibsen play, starring Jeremy Strong, which opened this week on Broadway—with cries of “No theatre on a dead…

NBC News

National Archives closes after climate change protesters dump red powder on U.S. Constitution

By Katherine Itoh 02/15/24

The National Archives rotunda and galleries in Washington, D.C., closed to the public early on Wednesday afternoon after two apparent climate change protesters dumped red powder on the case holding the U.S. Constitution.

The Guardian

Greta Thunberg goes on trial over London oil industry protests

By Damien Gayle 02/01/24

Greta Thunberg defied a police officer’s instruction to comply with an order to stop protesting outside an oil industry summit in central London last year, a court has heard.

Warhen Records

STOP MVP: Artists From WV, VA & NC Against The Mountain Valley Pipeline

12/05/23

Includes unlimited streaming of STOP MVP: Artists From WV, VA & NC Against The Mountain Valley Pipeline via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

truthout

New Report Reveals Big Oil’s Playbook to Silence Climate Protests

By Juliana Broad 11/07/23

A new report by Greenpeace USA details the widespread coordination between the public and private sectors to monitor activism, punish protesters both physically and legally, and grease the wheels for proposed anti-protest bills that criminalize…

Houston Chronicle

Desire to ‘shake humanity awake’ lies behind new wave of climate protests

By James Osborne 10/23/23

This past spring Ali Zaidi, the 34-year-old climate adviser to President Joe Biden, was readying to give a speech about climate change at a Washington think tank when a dozen or so activists stormed the…

resilience

How to Take out a Pipeline

By Greg Mikkelson 09/22/23

The speed of economic growth hinges to a large extent on the supply of fossil fuel, especially of oil and gas, which depends in turn on pipeline capacity. Thus, if we are to turn the…

Vox

What climate activists mean when they say “end fossil fuels”

By Rebecca Leber 09/21/23

As world leaders are in New York City for the annual United Nations General Assembly and the Climate Ambition Summit, protesters hit the streets. Members of Extinction Rebellion, a climate group dedicated to disruptive civil…

Time

We Need Climate Action Everywhere, All at Once

By Katherine Hayhoe 09/20/23

Never in recorded history have we experienced a summer this hot. From the relentless heat dome over the southern United States to the heatwaves that scorched southern Europe and South America in winter, our global…

The New Yorker

The Fight Against Climate Change Returns to the Streets

By Bill McKibben 09/18/23

Keeping movements alive is hard work—they run on volunteer energy, and they can be derailed by too much success, too much failure, too much internal strife, too many competing interests. Or they can be hindered…

The Guardian

Climate activists block Federal Reserve bank, calling for end to fossil fuel funding

By Dharna Noor 09/18/23

One day after the largest climate march since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, hundreds of climate activists blockaded the Federal Reserve Bank in New York to call for an end to funding for coal,…

Medium

Why did protests erupt around the world this weekend?

By Jessica Byrne 09/18/23

In dozens of countries and hundreds of cities worldwide, tens of thousands of people took to the streets this weekend to protest for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels. Rather timely, if…

Eyewitness News ABC7NY

114 arrested at climate change protest in Lower Manhattan

09/18/23

Over 100 protesters were arrested during demonstrations on Wall Street to draw attention to climate change. Tom Negovan has the latest...

AP News

Tens of thousands march to kick off climate summit, demanding end to warming-causing fossil fuels

By Seth Borenstein 09/18/23

Yelling that the future and their lives depend on ending fossil fuels, tens of thousands of protesters on Sunday kicked off a week where leaders will try once again to curb climate change primarily caused…

The Washington Post

Massive climate change protests in New York aim to turn up heat on Biden

By Timothy Puko and Dino Grandoni 09/18/23

They arrived by the thousands, wearing gas masks and melting-snowmen costumes and carrying signs calling for an end of burning fossil fuels. Climate Week started out with a bang as protesters inundated the streets of…

The New York Times

Climate Protesters March on New York, Calling for End to Fossil Fuels

By Somini Sengupta, Hilary Howard and Delger Erdenesanaa 09/17/23

Tens of thousands of people, young and old, filled the streets of Midtown Manhattan under blazing sunshine on Sunday to demand that world leaders quickly pivot away from fossil fuels dangerously heating the Earth. Their…

The Hill

Thousands of climate activists march in NYC, calling on Biden to declare climate emergency

By Miranda Nazzaro 09/17/23

Tens of thousands of protestors kicked off a march Sunday in New York City, advocating for an end to fossil fuels while calling on President Biden to declare a climate emergency. Hundreds of organizations, climate…

Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels

Press release: 600 thousand people around the world call for a fast and fair exit from fossil fuels: more than 700 actions in 65 countries

09/17/23

From September 15-17, people on every continent marched, rallied and took action for an end to the era of fossil fuels devastating our climate and worsening inequality.

Fight Fossil Fuels

650+ Actions to End Fossil Fuels Planned Around the World

09/15/23

From September 15-17, people on every continent are marching, rallying and striking for an end to the era of fossil fuels devastating our climate and worsening inequality.

USA TODAY

‘Young people are freaked out’: Weekend climate change protests planned around US, globe

By Elizabeth Weise 09/15/23

After a summer of record-smashing global warming events, advocates hope this weekend will bring some of the largest climate protests in years nationwide, including marches, school walk-outs and a major mobilization effort in New York…

Amnesty International

Global: Climate protests to call for an end to the use of fossil fuels

09/14/23

Millions of people at protests and events being held worldwide in coming days will call for a halt to the use of fossil fuels, echoing Amnesty International’s view that this is essential to try and…

DeSmog

Meet the Shadowy Network Vilifying Climate Protestors

By Amy Westervelt and Geoff Dembicki 09/12/23

Earlier this year, news footage began making the rounds on social media of young activists from the German climate organization Letzte Generation (Last Generation) being assaulted by their fellow citizens as they obstructed streets in…

The New York Times

With TikTok and Lawsuits, Gen Z Takes on Climate Change

By David Gelles 08/19/23

As Kaliko Teruya was coming home from her hula lesson on August 8, her father called. The apartment in Lahaina was gone, he said, and he was running for his life.

The New Yorker

New York’s Climate Strike and the Things That Make Teen-Agers March

By Alexandra Schwartz 09/20/19

Each generation inherits the messes made by its predecessors, and their mythologies, too. Like many nineties kids, I grew up on stories and photographs of anti-Vietnam protests: young people in flared jeans and peacoats marching…

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